Chapter 407: Be Careful When In Contact With Him

After exiting the virtual space, Su Yang went downstairs. However, before he left the neighborhood, he bumped into Qu Xuan, who was also walking out as well.

Qu Xuan was wearing short-sleeved sportswear that day and was holding a football in his hands. He still looked handsome as usual.

The only flaw to his handsomeness could be that he was humming a song. “There is no fragrance of flowers, no tree taller than me. I am a little wailing grass that no one cares about.”

Su Yang was speechless when he heard Qu Xuan’s song.

‘Is this person crazy?

‘Should I pretend not to know him?

‘Even though there were not many people in the residential area, singing like there was no one else around is too uncultured.

‘Of course… it would have been fine if he sang as well as I did. After all, it was a form of enjoyment. However, to sing as badly as he does is simply disturbing for others!’

Just as Su Yang was complaining, Qu Xuan noticed him as well.

The moment Qu Xuan saw Su Yang, his eyes lit up. He dashed over and wrapped his arms around Su Yang’s neck as he greeted him enthusiastically, “Hey! President! Long time no see! What a coincidence!”

Su Yang felt that his neck was about to break from Qu Xuan’s strangle. He quickly patted Qu Xuan’s hand and said, “Let go, let go. My neck’s about to be broken.”

Qu Xuan chuckled and let go before asking, “President, are you going out to play?”

Su Yang rubbed his sore neck and felt that it was a little weird for Qu Xuan to call him President.

After all, this nickname was used by Chuxia in the past.

‘In the past, Chuxia would always sweetly refer to me as “Mr. President” whenever she saw me. But now, Chuxia has changed that to “Mr. CEO”. I did not expect for this nickname to be taken over by Qu Xuan.’

As Su Yang was thinking, he said, “No, I’m just going out to buy something.”

Qu Xuan’s eyes lit up again. “What are you going out to buy? Is there something that I can help you with?”

Su Yang glanced at him. “Help? Can you help me pay then?”

Initially, Su Yang thought that anyone would back off at the mention of this topic. Unexpectedly, Qu Xuan did not seem to care at all. He said nonchalantly, “Sure. I can help you pay.”

Su Yang looked at him weirdly. [Heaven’s Eyes] judged his words to be true.

‘Is he being serious?

‘Does he really mean it?

‘What is he thinking?

‘Why can’t I understand what he’s thinking at all?

‘This guy is too mysterious. This is the kind of person that… I need to be careful when I’m interacting with him…

At that thought, Su Yang said, “After thinking about it, I think I would rest easier if I spent my own money. Let’s leave it at that. Thank you.”

Su Yang walked past Qu Xuan and walked out of the neighborhood.

After taking a few steps, Qu Xuan caught up with him again. He brightly smiled and his teeth shone brighter than the sun. “By the way, Mr. President, should we recruit some new students for the new semester for our society?”

Su Yang glanced at him. “I think… we should.”

Qu Xuan’s eyebrows twitched. “I feel that I can shoulder this responsibility. I’m going to be welcoming the new students this year so I feel that I can help to scout for some pretty girls for our society.”

Su Yang was confused.

‘Is there any connection between recruiting and scouting for pretty female students?’

Looking at Qu Xuan’s cheeky face, Su Yang really wanted to use the word ‘wretched’ on him. However… he could not bring it upon himself to do it.

‘Qu Xuan is the kind of person who’s so handsome, you can’t pin any negative description on him.

‘Despite using a wretched tone, despite having a wretched expression, all of those would cease to exist thanks to his handsome face.

‘Anyone would feel that he is a “straightforward” and “handsome” person, so long as he doesn’t speak…’

Su Yang sighed. ‘I would have been able to avoid a lot of troubles if I had his looks. Should I create a special item that could change my looks someday?

‘When the time comes, I’ll change faces with Qu Xuan and go flirt around with others. Nonsense! I’ll be doing all sorts of good deeds anonymously…’

Glancing at Qu Xuan’s face enviously, Su Yang asked, “When are you going to welcome the new students?”

Qu Xuan stuck out his fingers and counted. “Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday… I’ll be going all week.”

Su Yang was confused.

“Is there a need to go for so many days?”

Qu Xuan grinned as bright as the Sun. “Who knows, I might be able to meet my true love on either day?”

Su Yang laughed.

‘Jerk.’

Su Yang could not be bothered with this guy whose mind was only filled with women. He continued walking towards the supermarket.

In the end, Qu Xuan continued to follow Su Yang and chatted with him continuously. However, it was not known if was on his way or he followed Su Yang intentionally. Furthermore, he even went to the supermarket and picked up Su Yang’s things for him.

In the end, Su Yang managed to get everything he needed with his help.

When they were settling the bill, Qu Xuan truly intended to pay, but Su Yang rejected his offer.

After he was done buying his items, Su Yang thought that Qu Xuan would continue following him. Unexpectedly, Qu Xuan said goodbye to him and went to school to play soccer.

According to him, their soccer team was supposed to be training before school started but he had been delaying it for a long time.

Su Yang was confused. ‘Then why did you accompany me for half an hour just now? Bonding session?

‘I can’t figure it out. I don’t think that a good man like me should be affiliating myself with a jerk like him.

‘I feel like all my tendencies of being a jerk have all been influenced by him.

‘Yeap… Qu Xuan is the one to be blamed.’

When he reached home, Su Yang put the things down and started preparing to produce the special item.

He opened the system store and clicked on [Driving License With Unknown Ability]. Immediately, a video of the production process for the recipe appeared before him.

Su Yang watched the entire video.

‘It feels…

‘Quite tedious.’

He fixed the video guide before his eyes. After confirming that there were no problems, he clicked [Produce].

As he clicked [Produce], a small table appeared in front of Su Yang out of thin air with a thud.

On the table, there was a pressure cooker, a sieve, a few planks, and a pile of other things…

Su Yang did not proceed to produce the item in a rush. He went upstairs to retrieve the fragments of the Little Monster Beans as well as the grass and the bamboo that he had collected into the pressure cooker, added water and boiled them.

‘This pressure cooker seems to be the same pressure cooker that I used to cook the pork shoulder previously. It even smells like pork shoulder inside. Does the system even know how to recycle items?’

There were still 2 buttons on the pressure cooker as usual and it started after Su Yang pressed [On].

After the pressure cooker started, Su Yang began waiting patiently.

After waiting for a while, he felt a little bored, so he sat down on the sofa and sent Mr. Shen a WeChat message to ask him about the loan.

Su Yang texted him, ‘Mr. Shen, have you settled my 50 million yuan loan?’

Su Yang honestly felt that he was being a little annoying as he sent the text message.

‘I was the one who hung up the phone on him and said that I would not be accepting any other conditions, yet now I’m asking him about the status instead. I’m definitely asking for it since I seem like I’m provoking him on purpose!

‘If I were Mr. Shen, I would probably be very furious when I read the message!’

As expected, not long after Su Yang sent the message, he received a notification. [The other party is no longer one of your friends. Please add the other party into your friendlist first.]

Su Yang was speechless.

‘I’ve been deleted.

‘Alright, I guess I really angered this person the other time.

‘However, I really don’t care.

‘I’m not afraid of anything, I have my special item!

‘That didn’t seem to rhyme…

…

Just as Su Yang had expected, Mr. Shen was experiencing the most peculiar day in his career.

As the manager of the bank credit department, Mr. Shen actually had a lot of connections. Even though he had not taken the initiative to improve his sales, he had still helped quite a number of people. This was the advantage that naturally comes with a big company.

Especially since he was working in a big bank, many companies had begged him for a loan. Because of that, Mr. Shen had connections with people from various backgrounds.

Previously, he had been too lazy to utilise it, but now he began to tap into his connections, he realized that it was terrifying.

Many companies had received Mr. Shen’s saying that he would be relaxing the terms of their loans. Therefore, each and everyone of them began to contact him.

Mr. Shen was a little overwhelmed at first as he received calls after calls. He was completely over the moon. After all, the more companies that came to contact him, the more money he could get.

But very soon, he couldn’t laugh anymore.

When he received the emails from those companies that had called him, he realized that most companies were not eligible to receive a loan. In fact, some companies don’t even have mortgages to be used and were just trying their luck.

‘What’s going on?’

After analyzing for about an hour, Mr. Shen came to a conclusion, ‘The highly eligible customers have already had their loans approved a long time ago, hence there was no need for them to take advantage of the more lenient loan terms.

‘Therefore, 70% of the people who came to ask for loans were companies who normally wouldn’t be able to get their loans approved while 20% of them were those who were at the final stages of getting their loans approved which I could probably try getting it approved. As for the remaining 10%, they’re all scams.’

‘I remember a company that had applied for a 20 million yuan loan with 100% share of their company as mortgage. However, the company literally had nothing aside from a few employees.

’20 million yuan for a shell company? If that wasn’t a scam, what was?’

At the thought of this, Mr. Shen could not help but think of Su Yang again. ‘Well, it’s just a lousy film company with only one movie, yet they’re planning to apply for a 50 million yuan loan. Do they really think that they own the bank?’

He shook his head and started his preliminary screening. After the selection, he gave it to his subordinates to commence their investigations. If there were no problems, they could submit it to the Risk Assessment Department to assess the risks involved.

‘If those could still be approved, I could start releasing their loans.

‘Normally speaking, the process wouldn’t be so fast. However, I’m currently lacking in projects, so I’m definitely going to urge the management to review and release the funds as soon as possible.’

As the number of phone calls became less frequent, Mr. Shen had more time to think. ‘It’s almost the end of August, that means it’s also the time for the half-yearly report to be released. I’m guessing that my poor performance has been noticed by the higher-ups, even Director Zhao can’t help him this time.

‘However, as long as I can close more sales as soon as possible, it would be enough for me to catch up before the year-end report is released.

‘As for Su Yang’s 50 million yuan loan… No way. Does he really think that I won’t be able to survive without him? Not only did he dare to hang up on me, he even had so little collateral to put up? Dream on!

‘I told him to put Jiadian Technology as his collateral, yet he insisted on mortgaging his film company. Only an idiot would get his loan approved!’

As he thought about this, Mr. Shen felt like he was floating. He could not help but secretly take out a small glass bottle from the drawer. Then, he looked around to make sure that no one was paying attention to him before he lowered his head and took a sip.

“Ah ~” Mr. Shen raised his head comfortably. He felt really good. ‘Wine really is a previous thing…’

…

At that moment, Su Yang did not know that Mr. Shen’s heart was racing. He knew that his item had finished cooking when he saw a green tick before his eyes…

‘It’s time to get it out of the cooker.’